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Gülşen Çalık was born and raised in Istanbul. She is a New York based artist who embraces a broad range of approaches in creating paintings, objects, installations, and books. After graduating from the Painting Department at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul in 1973, she completed her Master′s degree in New Forms / Conceptual Art at Pratt Institute in 1978. Since 1987 Çalık has worked as the producer and creator, artist, and writer for Art Police. She has held many solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in the US and Turkey. Çalık has had several awards including a Fulbright Scholarship (1976-78), a L.I.N.E. award for artist books (1979), and an artist-in-residency grant at the Visual Arts Workshop in Rochester, N.Y. (1984). In 2007 Çalık was the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant in the category of artist books/drawings. Her works can be seen in the Yale Art Library Collection (Alan Chasanoff Artist Books Collection) and private collections in France, Japan, Turkey, and the United States. She has received favorable critical attention and mention in the New York Times (Holland Cotter, Helen Harrison); Art Forum.com, Critics’ Choice (Nick Stillman); The New Yorker; d’Art (Gae Savannah); The New York Art World (Elle Can, Mary Hrbacek); The New York Arts Magazine (Susan Yung, Elle Can, Tova Beck-Friedman), Madame Butterfly (Japanese edition). Çalık currently continues her work in New York.
Solo exhibitions:
2009, the Tompkins Square Library Art Gallery, NYC, NY
2004, Jan Van Der Donk Gallery, NYC, NY
2002, Tribes Gallery, NYC, NY
2000, Flora Danica Gallery, NYC, NY
2000, Gallery X, NYC, NY
1999, Tribes Gallery, NYC, NY
1995, Maçka Art Gallery, Istanbul
1998, Gallery X, NYC, NY
1984, Franklin Furnace, NYC, NY
1976, Gallery Baraz, Istanbul
Group exhibitions:
2013, Sideshow Nation, Sideshow Gallery, NYC, NY
2013, Parallax Art Fair, Susan Halper Fine Art, Inc., NYC, NY
2012, Mic: Check (the: Human Mic) - Sideshow Gallery, NYC, NY
2011-2012, Water show, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC, NY
2008-09, the Collectors Gallery of the Albright Knox Art Gallery
2008, Vamp Pump, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York City, NY
2008, 66 pieces of art on the Wall, Haim Chanin Fine Art, NYC, NY
2008, ArtParis, Haim Chanin Gallery
2007, The Islip Museum
2002-2007, Alpan Gallery
2002-2007, Collections and Editions Rare Books Fair, Jan Van
Der Donk Gallery, NYC, Paris
2006, Pelham Art Center
2005, Gigantic Art Space
2004-2006, Holland Tunnel
2004, Volume
1998, Gramercy Art Fair, Galerie Elizabeth Valleix, NYC, NY
1996, Galerie Elizabeth Valleix, Paris
1980, the Provincetown Art Museum
Reference: gulsencalik.com, artfacts.net, ucmo.edu |
